❗️Captain in Palestinian military training authority beaten to death by Israeli forces at West Bank checkpoint

Raafat Khairi Ahmad Abu Khalil (Abu Shams), 41, a captain in the Palestinian Military Training Authority in Jericho from the town of Attil, north of Tulkarem, died after reportedly being severely beaten by Israeli occupation forces while detained at the Anab checkpoint, east of Tulkarem, according to Ultra Palestine and local Palestinian sources.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews responded to reports of a critically injured man at the checkpoint and found Abu Khalil in cardiac arrest.

Paramedics immediately began CPR, but he was later pronounced dead. Local sources said he had been detained by Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint before his death.